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  Session 7

1. An Unfamiliar Organization of Thoughts

2. Progression vs. Recapitulation

   • Western/American Minds (Progression)

     • We look at most things linearly.

     • This is how we come to the book of Revelation:

       • PROBLEM: John did not write the book of Revelation from a western perspective.

   • Jewish Minds (Recapitulation)

     • A Jewish mind looks at things cyclically.
     • This is how John wrote the book of Revelation – cyclically.

3. Defining Recapitulation

   • The definition of recapitulation in literature is: the retelling of the same events from a different perspective with a different purpose commonly involving intensification.

4. The Structure of Revelation

   • Spiraling into smaller finitude

   • Examples of this type of cyclical progression:

     • The end of the world (Rev. 6:12-17; 11:15-18; 16:17-21; etc.)

     • THUS: Different interpretative keys need to be identified:

       • The seals, trumpets, and bowls.

         • All are a Series of 7—Completion
         • All come to the end of the world
         • All have an interlude between the 6th and 7th element of their series

       • Dialog/Narrative Interruptions

         • Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9

       • Structural Interruption

         • Introduction to the Unholy Trinity

           • Characters

             • Satan (Rev 12:3; cf. Rev 2:9, 10, 13; 3:9)
             • 2 Beasts (Rev 13)

           • Parody ministries with the Holy Trinity

           • THE PEOPLE OF THE TRINITY’S:

             • Babylon (Rev 14:8)
             • The Church

         • The Collapse of the Unholy Trinity

           • [a] Dragon introduced (Rev 12)

             • [b] Two Beasts introduced (Rev 13)

               • [c] Babylon introduced (Rev 14)

               • [c`] Babylon destroyed (Rev 17-18)

             • [b`] Two Beasts destroyed (Rev 19)

           • [a`] Dragon destroyed (Rev 20)